Timothy Snyder (Τίμοθι Σνάιντερ)

Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University and Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Vienna. Specialist in the History of Central and Eastern Europe and the History of the Holocaust, he also regularly collaborates with well-known European and American publications. He has been honored by the American Academy of Letters and Arts, as well as the Hannah Arendt and Leipzig Exhibition awards.
He is also a member of the US Council on International Relations, a think tank specializing in US foreign policy and international affairs, a member of the Board of Directors of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies.
Timothy Snyder studied at Brown University and received his PhD in 1997 from the University of Oxford. He speaks eleven European languages and is therefore able to make the best use of archival sources from Germany and Central Europe.